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Venkat Subramaniam Brings a Contemporary Twist to GoF Design Patterns with Modern Java at Devoxx BE
The GoF Design Patterns published in 1998 qualifies as a classic still being taught in universities and recommended as best practice in the industry. In his deep dive session from Devoxx, Venkat Subramaniam gave them a contemporary twist, by implementing Iterator, Strategy, Decorator or Factory Method with modern Java. Extras were: call around method or the infamous optional usage.
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End of Year Learnings from Minecraft’s Migration to JDK 16 and Q&A with the Mojang Team
In an effort to obtain a smoother transition towards JDK 17, Minecraft decided to upgrade to JDK 16 first just months before Java's LTS release in September 2021. The changes point towards possible performance gains just by running JDK 17 out-of-the-box. InfoQ reached out to the Mojang team with further questions on their experience running JDK 16 in production.
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Gradle 7.0 Released with Support for JDK 16
Gradle, the customizable open source build automation tool, has released version 7 with support for JDK 16, faster incremental builds, improved build reliability, and native support for new Macs with Apple Silicon processors. Preview features like dependency verification and support for Java Module System, introduced in previous releases, have been promoted as stable features.
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Java News Roundup - Week of April 5th, 2021
A roundup of stories in the Java ecosystem for the week of April 5th.
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Java News Roundup - Week of March 22nd, 2021
A roundup of last week's news in the OpenJDK and wider Java ecosystem.
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Java News Roundup - Week of March 15th, 2021
A roundup of smaller stories in the Java ecosystem from the week of March 15th, 2021, featuring the release of Java 16, JEPs advancing from Draft to Candidate status, and news from Hibernate, Red Hat and Spring.
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Java 16 Released
Oracle has released version 16 of the Java programming language and virtual machine.
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Java News Roundup - Week of Feb 15th, 2021
A roundup of smaller stories in the Java ecosystem from the week of February 15th, 2021.
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Java News Roundup - Week of Feb 8th, 2021
A roundup of the week's smaller stories in the Java ecosystem.
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IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 EAP 1 Supports Java 16
JetBrains released IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 EAP 1 featuring full support for Java 16. Other noteworthy features include support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2, a built-in browser to preview HTML files, and improved profiling support. This release also makes it possible to run applications via Docker, SSL, and WSL.
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What We Know about Java 16 and 17 So Far
Oracle recently released version 15 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. We take a look at what's known about the contents of the upcoming next releases, Java 16 and 17.
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Records and Pattern Matching for Instanceof Finalized in JDK 16
Final releases of records and the new pattern matching functionality for instanceof are planned for JDK 16.